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[QUOTE="Elann2008"]For those of you that agree with the TC. I want a list of MMO's you've played F2P and P2P. And the amount of time you spent with each. Please try to be honest. Thanks.Elann2008
Earth and Beyond, four months
Auto Assault, until it shut down (I think it was like 6 months, I cant remember...it was soooooooo much fun though)
EVE Online, two months
Lord of the Rings Online, five months
Pirates of the Burning Sea, one month
World of Warcraft, off and on for 5+ years
Champions Online (F2P)
Im missing a few others, and I've tried every single free trial for what seems like the last ten years or so, but thats about it
With that said, I dont think Rift is the best MMO released. However, it is definately one of the best.
*Oh, and Tabula Rasa...now there is a game that should have had the support Blizzard or Trion could provide. I miss that game so so much.
Thanks mrbojangles. Nice list you got there. Former World of Warcraft player myself, Warhammer Online, and Guild Wars (if you want to consider it an MMO). I've been watching a good deal of gameplay vids and it looks fun. Not sure what it does different from other MMOs though. I hear about this Rift gameplay design. I don't fully understand it. Is Rift PVE-centric or PVP-centric? I'm more of a PVE guy but I could tell you in full honestly that I pvp'ed a TON in World of Warcraft, although I would pick doing raids over pvp any day. PVP, more or less was down time but I dedicated so much time into WOW's pvp system. I was a Grand Marshal with my Human Warrior in the vanilla WOW days. I kinda regret that I invested that much time into it but it's been done. :P I wanted to give Rift a try. With D2D's discount, it's even more tempting. Hmmm.rifts are a little gimmicky, I wont deny that...Rift is an excellent, albeit ordinary, MMO if you discount the rifts.
with that said, it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH FUN!
Rifts are essentially these portals that opene up all over the land at fairly frequent intervals (there seems to always be at least one open on each land) and enemies of the respective planar dimenions (death, fire, nature, water, etc) flood out in waves.
Sometimes the rifts are easy (with nonelite creatures a player or two can defeat), sometimes they are more difficult (with numerous elites you need a balanced group to take on). The beauty comes in the "public group" feature that allows a player to join a group at will without having to ask. Its refreshing, and very nice being able to group effortlessly to defeat the enemy.
There are also invasions, where planar NPCs will attack your strongholds and villages, and you must defeat them, and at least once a day there is this big elaborate event where you must group up to close like 8 rifts, 4 checkpoints, 50 invasions, and finally defeat some boss. I did my first today and it was a lot of fun riding into battle alongside 30 other raid members, healing and killing foes.
Basically, rifts and events are like fun, quick, and interesting instances and raids. And you get rewards dependng on how much you contribute, usually in the form of special currency used to buy cool planar goods, and rare artifacts to boost your power.
Rift is a good game because it nails the fundamentals extremely well. But Rift is a great game because of the little things like taking five minutes away from questing to close a rift, finding artifacts scattered around, completeting a cool daily, and discovering puzzles.
*oh I also did my first dungeon today...it was fantastic.
**I Dont really like MMOs for my "pvp" fix (I play shooters for that :P ), but Rift definately feels like a solid PvE experience thus far. Quests are diverse, interesting, and while grinding is going to occur in any MMO, Rift feels less grindy than anything ive played so far.
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